How to Use chant in a Sentence

chant

1 of 2 verb

• The crowd began chanting her name.
• They were chanting in Arabic.
• Priests chanted the Catholic Mass in Latin.
• Protesters were chanting outside the governor's home.
• They chanted “Sara, Sara” until she came back on stage.
• Woken up in the middle of the night to chant the rosary.
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 17 Feb. 2024
• By the end of the scene, everyone is chanting his name.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 5 Jan. 2024
• In between speakers, the group hit a drum and cheered and chanted.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 2 Mar. 2024
• By the end, however, the crowd is chanting his stage name.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Sep. 2023
• When the fans chanted his name on Thursday, Volpe did the same, then raised his glove to right field.
  — Tyler Kepner Hiroko Masuike, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• The opening 30 seconds of the four-minute track pulse with chanting, the crackle of snares, the thump of bass drums and the thick roar of horns.
  — Jonah Valdez, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• Heard shouts again, this time getting the women to chant it in unison.
  — Claire Ballor, Dallas News, 7 June 2023
• Even before Young Miko set foot on the stage, the crowd was already chanting her name.
  — Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
• With a big smile on her face, Nicki Nicole started chanting his name and the crowd joined in.
  — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 4 Nov. 2023
• Meanwhile, their Bunnies fans chanted along to the song.
  — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 20 Nov. 2023
• At rallies across Israel, the largest in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, crowds chanted and waved signs and flags.
  — Mallory Moench, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
• The audience began chanting for an encore, and Ayase, ikura, and the rest of the band took to the stage once again.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 22 June 2023
• People waved flags, crowds chanted and clapped, and cars honked their horns.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 5 Oct. 2023
• With the whole crowd chanting the lyrics along with him, Usher raised his hands out to the crowd to offer them a moment of thanks.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2023
• The Crimson Tide faithful kept on chanting, but their faces didn’t change.
  — Matt Stahl | [e-mail], al, 16 Sep. 2023
• The cathedral was as deep and shadowed as a canyon, full of drifting incense and the thrilling sound of low choral chanting.
  — Robert F. Worth, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2024
• Three Doors Down on the turntable chanting their 2000 hit would furnish a fitting coda as the bash winds down.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2024
• Then, as the sun began to set and the sky to darken, hundreds of people marched down city streets, still chanting.
  — Brittany Shammas, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• Margaret and her friends would chant, willing their breasts to grow larger.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Jan. 2023
• Even before the Puerto Rican star set foot on the stage, the crowd was already chanting her name.
  — Cat Cardenas, Rolling Stone, 14 Mar. 2024
• Between songs, the crowd chants his name, unprompted: O-T!
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 22 Sep. 2023
• Many have out their cell phone cameras and are chanting along with the impassioned fans..
  — Shane Connuck, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2024
• These are led mostly by youths who chant and light afire the piles of garbage clogging the city because of strikes by garbage workers.
  — Aurelien Breeden, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Mar. 2023
• My mom was a beautiful dancer; everyone would chant her name and beg her to get up and dance.
  — Tara Grammy, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2023
• Their drum banging and megaphone chanting just barely could be heard on the 11th floor, near the mayor's balcony.
  — Taylor Seely, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2024

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chant

2 of 2 noun

• Chant is often used as a form of meditation and prayer.
• Our chant was “Peace now, peace now!”.
• Wanna know all the chants and the setlist before heading to the show?
  — The Enquirer, 30 June 2023
• The chants and the hymns are ordered and peaceful, a recipe for beauty.
  — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
• Not the noise of a low-flying plane drowning out her chants.
  — Milla Surjadi, Los Angeles Times, 11 Aug. 2023
• Bono then led a chant of Navalny’s name that the audience joined in on.
  — Alli Rosenbloom, CNN, 19 Feb. 2024
• All around him, shouts, chants, and traffic horns blasting loud.
  — Stefano Pozzebon, CNN, 1 Oct. 2023
• As the saloon door opened, a blast of chants and boos from Trump protesters outside filled the room.
  — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
• One fan in the field-level seats near the right field foul pole, turning to face the crowd, encouraged others to join the chant.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• Late in the third quarter Saturday, a chant began to flow from the Galen Center stands.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2024
• The Sirens — like many soccer supporter groups — start chants, wave flags and set off smoke bombs.
  — Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Mar. 2023
• Prove your Swiftie level with these chants, rituals at The Eras Tour.
  — Scott Wartman cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 6 June 2023
• The rest of the fans, what few there were, joined the protesters’ chants urging John Fisher, the owner of the A’s, to relinquish his hold on the club.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 4 May 2023
• The protest, dubbed Shut It Down for Palestine, was largely peaceful despite the angry shouts and chants for a cease-fire to the war.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Melody Petersen, and Angie Orellana Hernandez Los Angeles Times (tns), arkansasonline.com, 26 Nov. 2023
• Their chants could be heard from inside the classroom where a group of children sat for story time.
  — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
• During the protests, Jones, Johnson and Pearson walked to the front of the chamber to join in the chants that reverberated from the gallery.
  — Andrea Salcedo, Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2023
• The spellings or chants coupled with the sound of the conch shells and a symphony of sound created by the base, the coupé, and cutter drums create the soundtrack of the Jab.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 8 Sep. 2023
• Swift liked the TikTok, which led fans to declare this an official new chant.
  — Jaimie Ding, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2023
• There are a golden figurine, flowers, incense, a gong, and a large book from which the senior monk reads and chants.
  — Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 8 June 2023
• But as soon as the Black Lives Matter chants quieted in the streets, so did their rabid support.
  — Jasmine Browley, Essence, 23 Jan. 2024
• The chants are in Spanish and in English, reflecting the fan-base of L.A.’s women’s pro soccer team.
  — Helen Li, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2024
• Outside the stadiums, the marshals trance-like chant is stuck in people’s head.
  — Lujain Jo, ajc, 25 Nov. 2022
• Then in Tel Aviv over the weekend, as in all previous weeks, the same flags and chants for democracy from the other side.
  — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 May 2023
• Clustered near the park’s iconic arch, about 200 protesters joined a chant.
  — Suzanne Sataline, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022
• The event drew protests, whose chants could be heard inside the bill-signing ceremony.
  — Jack Stripling, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2023
• While those fans didn’t stop, Lecce fans instead drowned them out with chants of support.
  — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024
• These being writers, the placards and chants were a little more clever than usual.
  — Vulture, 5 May 2023
• The catchy chant ends with a tally point added to the chalkboard under Reynold's initials, making the score 2-1 for Reynolds and McElhenney.
  — Alexis Jones, Peoplemag, 15 Apr. 2023
• The match was marred by a fight that took place in the stands and by multiple stoppages due to discriminatory chants.
  — Lawrence Dow, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Mar. 2024
• Upon hearing the chant, Nayef turned to a reporter and explained why protesters sided with Hamas.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024

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